Gay students organize campaign to kick out Catholic priest for saying homosexuality, abortion sinful

Life Site News ^ | 4-5-13 | John Jalsevac

[ReformationFan]

Catholic students at George Washington University are rallying to the support of their beloved priest after two gay seniors launched a campaign to kick him out of his post at the university’s Newman Center for preaching that homosexuality and abortion are sinful.

The GW Hatchet, a campus newspaper, reported this week that seniors Damian Legacy and Blake Bergen are spearheading the campaign. The story has since been picked up by numerous other news outlets.

Fr. Greg Shaffer

The students say that they will file a formal complaint with the university, release a video featuring ten other students who share their opinion, and hold prayer vigils until the priest is removed from his post. They are also demanding that the university’s Student Association defund the Newman Center, which receives $10,000 a year.

In their letter of complaint the pair will reportedly cite studies showing how being around “homophobic” behavior can lead to loss of appetite and problems sleeping.

The students complain that Fr. Greg Shaffer has spoken out against gay “marriage” and abortion, and has counseled homosexual Catholic students to embrace celibacy. They said they were disturbed when Fr. Shaffer quoted the Book of Romans and the Catechism of the Catholic Church.

[cradle of freedom]

The church better kick out anti-Catholics who enter Catholic universities just to subvert it’s basic teachings. Enough with this casper milk toast Christianity. Jesus threw the money changers out of the temple, why doesn’t the Church kick out its enemies from the universities. Every applicant to a Christian university should have to sign a contract vowing that they will not work to undermine the religious principles of the institution.

[cradle of freedom]

Follow the money....it ususally leads to George Soros.

[Wyatt's Torch]

Just another part of the organized crusade by liberals to rid public life of every possible influence of religion.

[Yosemitest]

I think ... you better think again.
I don't know how religious you are, but consider this:

The Bible speaks of women as it speaks of churches.
It warns of false people coming, working for Satan.
So be careful choosing your church, and remember:
And don't choose the "GREAT WHORE, THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS AND ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH.
... And the woman which thou sawest is that great city, which reigneth over the kings of the earth."

[Mrs. Don-o]

If you have half a minute, re-read what I wrote. It should be fairly obvious that this absurd, cheap knock-off "North American Old Catholic Church" has no appeal for me except for providing a dumb-as-a-doofus target for my aroused sense of irony.

"North American" it is, apparently. But the other three words are howlers.

Kinda like Flannery O'Connor's "Holy Church of Christ Without Christ: where the lame don't walk, and the blind don't see, and what's dead stays that way."

Tagline.

[narses]

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[annalex]

Thank you, father.

[Maelstorm]

This is the same typical stuff. The same people that implore others to be “open minded” and “tolerant” prove over and over again they are not just intolerant but aggressively do. The reason is they want to make sure that the only message getting out is that if you speak up against homosexuality or any sexual liberal stance you will be punished so you’d better keep quiet or else. There are an awful lot of so called “conservatives” who seem not to have a problem with this because they are silent. Someday that silence will not be voluntary and then it will be too late.

[Yosemitest]

"... founded in 2007 ..."

I see. It's best not to read FR when you're very tired.

[OriginalChristian]

AMEN...